ALL ABOUT BEETHOVAN

by Raja Sharma

Sometimes in the frenzy of composing Beethoven would forget to eat until eventually he was famished with urgent hunger pangs. Siegfried related the amusing tale of Beethoven's disastrous attempt to cook dinner for a few invited friends. The beef soup was cold; the lukewarm vegetables were swimming in water and grease, while "the roast meat was burnt to a cinder".?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

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First published November 3, 2009